Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Archers met on their saint’s feast day in dress uniform for a grand banquet. The celebrations sometimes lasted an entire week, p ...

Rembrandt Rembrandt van Rijn(1606–1669), Hals’s younger contemporary, was an artist of great versatility, a master of light and ...

NIGHT WATCH Rembrandt amplified the complexity and en- ergy of the group portrait in The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq ( ...

such as Rembrandt and Velázquez (see Chapter 24). Although these later artists may have sacrificed some of the dramatic effects ...

REMBRANDT’S ETCHINGS Rembrandt’s virtuosity also extended to the graphic media—in particular, to etching (see “Woodcuts, Engravi ...

25-17Aelbert Cuyp, Distant View of Dordrecht, with a Milkmaid and Four Cows, and Other Figures, late 1640s. Oil on canvas, 5  1 ...

to be bleached (a major industry in Haar- lem)—reflects the pride Dutch painters took in recording their homeland and the activi ...

this quality are colors so true to the optical facts and so subtly mod- ulated that they suggest Vermeer was far ahead of his ti ...

PIETER CLAESZ Many Dutch still-life paintings, such as Vani- tas Still Life (FIG. 25-21) by Pieter Claesz(1597/98–1660), cele- b ...

ish floral arrangement is so full that many of the blossoms seem to be spilling out of the vase. Ruysch carefully constructed he ...

statuary. Landscape, of which Poussin became increasingly fond, pro- vides the setting for the picture. Dominating the foregroun ...

tance, whole assemblies of solid geometric structures (temples, tow- ers, walls, villas, and a central grand sarcophagus). The s ...

tombs, and towers. He made these the fundamental elements of his compositions. Travelers could understand the picturesque beauti ...

Under the crucifix tree, men roll dice on a drumhead for the belong- ings of the executed. (This may be an allusion to the soldi ...

portrayed it (FIG. 25-8). But here, the light, its source shaded by an old man’s hand, falls upon a very different company in a ...

ganda and the value of visual imagery for cultivating a public per- sona, and they spared no pains to raise great symbols and mo ...

(FIG. 23-12). The emphatically horizontal sweep of the 17th-century facade brushed aside all memory of Gothic verticality. Its s ...

The formal gardens near the palace provide a rational transition from the frozen architectural forms to the natural living ones. ...

nymphs display a compelling charm as they minister to the god Apollo at the end of the day. (The three nymphs in the background ...

vast drum and dome, seeming to serve simply as a base for them. The overpowering dome, conspicuous on the Parisian skyline, is i ...